Kubernetes Job Trends in Surrey

Kubernetes (k8s)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Kubernetes skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 63 116
Rank change year-on-year -10 +53 -61
Permanent jobs citing Kubernetes 36 28 44
As % of all permanent jobs in Surrey 1.77% 2.77% 1.68%
As % of the Systems Management category 30.77% 50.00% 20.75%
Number of salaries quoted 28 16 30
10th Percentile £55,625 £50,625 £46,875
25th Percentile £59,375 £65,000 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £71,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% -10.94% -5.88%
75th Percentile £70,000 £88,125 £87,500
90th Percentile £74,875 £90,000 £87,875
South East median annual salary £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -7.14% -

All Systems Management Skills
Surrey

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Surrey.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 117 56 212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Surrey 5.76% 5.54% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 91 39 124
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,875 £38,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -7.69%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £75,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £88,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -8.33%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Kubernetes relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Kubernetes job vacancy trend in Surrey

Kubernetes
Salary Trend in Surrey

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Kubernetes

Kubernetes
Salary Histogram in Surrey

Salary distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Surrey over the 6 months to 24 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Kubernetes in Surrey

Kubernetes
Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Kubernetes within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 24 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Guildford -18 14 £62,500 -30.56% 2
Staines -4 6 £67,500 +3.85% 1
Leatherhead - 5 - -
Woking -18 3 £65,000 -21.21%
Reigate -9 2 - - 1
Egham - 1 £65,000 -
Epsom - 1 £60,000 -
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 - -
Kubernetes
South East

Kubernetes
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) IIS
1 2 (5.56%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) AWS
2 16 (44.44%) GitHub
3 14 (38.89%) Azure
4 11 (30.56%) Amazon EKS
4 11 (30.56%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 7 (19.44%) Azure AKS
7 5 (13.89%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (8.33%) Cloudflare
10 2 (5.56%) Azure API Management
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Key Vault
10 2 (5.56%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (5.56%) Datadog
10 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
10 2 (5.56%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Firewall
1 8 (22.22%) VPN
2 3 (8.33%) HTTP
2 3 (8.33%) RTP
2 3 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 3 (8.33%) VoIP
2 3 (8.33%) Wireshark
3 2 (5.56%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 5 (13.89%) MySQL
3 4 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (5.56%) NoSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Pinecone
4 2 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (5.56%) Redis
4 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) GitLab
2 5 (13.89%) Git
3 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 3 (8.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (5.56%) Claude Code
5 2 (5.56%) JIRA
5 2 (5.56%) MSI
6 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.78%) Gatling
6 1 (2.78%) JMeter
6 1 (2.78%) JUnit
6 1 (2.78%) Postman
6 1 (2.78%) Selenium
6 1 (2.78%) TestNG
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.22%) Retail
3 3 (8.33%) Aerospace
4 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Finance
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Developer
2 10 (27.78%) Senior
2 10 (27.78%) Senior DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Administrator
4 8 (22.22%) DevOps Administrator
4 8 (22.22%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 8 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (16.67%) Python Developer
6 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.56%) .NET Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Backend Developer
7 2 (5.56%) Cybersecurity Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Lead
7 2 (5.56%) Python Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Senior DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Systems Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) Flask
2 5 (13.89%) REST
3 4 (11.11%) .NET
3 4 (11.11%) Django
3 4 (11.11%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) ARM Templates
4 3 (8.33%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (8.33%) Jinja
4 3 (8.33%) OAuth
4 3 (8.33%) OAuth2
4 3 (8.33%) pytest
4 3 (8.33%) RFC 2833
4 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 3 (8.33%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (8.33%) WebRTC
5 2 (5.56%) FastAPI
5 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
5 2 (5.56%) scikit-learn
5 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
5 2 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
1 8 (22.22%) Private Cloud
2 4 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
3 2 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 2 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) PKI
3 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (61.11%) Linux
2 5 (13.89%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Ubuntu
3 3 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (63.89%) CI/CD
2 19 (52.78%) DevOps
3 15 (41.67%) AI
4 13 (36.11%) Infrastructure Automation
5 12 (33.33%) Agile
5 12 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
6 10 (27.78%) Cloud Security
6 10 (27.78%) Observability
7 8 (22.22%) Configuration Management
8 7 (19.44%) Collaborative Working
8 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
9 6 (16.67%) Microservices
10 5 (13.89%) Continuous Deployment
10 5 (13.89%) Mentoring
10 5 (13.89%) OOP
10 5 (13.89%) Open Source
10 5 (13.89%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
11 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (11.11%) DevSecOps
Programming Languages
1 24 (66.67%) Python
2 12 (33.33%) Bash
3 8 (22.22%) Go
3 8 (22.22%) SQL
4 7 (19.44%) PowerShell
5 6 (16.67%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) C++
6 4 (11.11%) C
6 4 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (5.56%) Bicep
7 2 (5.56%) Perl
7 2 (5.56%) PHP
7 2 (5.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 2 (5.56%) CEH
4 2 (5.56%) CISM
4 2 (5.56%) CISSP
4 2 (5.56%) GIAC
5 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.78%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 2 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 2 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 18 (50.00%) Docker
2 3 (8.33%) Kamailio
3 2 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Terraform
2 14 (38.89%) Ansible
3 12 (33.33%) Grafana
3 12 (33.33%) Prometheus
4 8 (22.22%) Proxmox
5 6 (16.67%) Argo
6 2 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) VMware
3 3 (8.33%) BT
3 3 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 3 (8.33%) Mitel
3 3 (8.33%) New Relic
4 2 (5.56%) Google
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
4 2 (5.56%) Qualys
4 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) Zerto
5 1 (2.78%) EMC